THE PLAGUE / THE BLACK DEATH

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Click on this link to see how the Plague spread throughout Europe: 
http://wadsworth.cengage.com/history_d/templates/student_resources/0534600069_spielvogel/InteractiveMaps/swfs/map11_1.html

After checking the map, click on the Critical interactive questions.

The Plague or Black Death came to Europe in 1347. This disease was highly contagious. It spread across Europe. It was so widespread and so deadly that it is estimated to have killed one fourth (or one half, according to several historicians) of all the people in Europe.

All the conditions were right for an epidemic. Doctors were powerless against infectious disease. People were weakened by war and harvest failures. Germs, the fleas which carried them, and the rats which carried the fleas, flourished in the dirty towns. Busy trade routes carried the plague from one place to another.

·        The bubonic plague was a painful disease, with black buboes, or swellings, in the groin and armpits, which lasted up to a week. There was some chance of surviving if the buboes burst. The amount of the population who died, often referred to as the 'mortality rate', was 50%.

Medieval doctors did not have a clue what caused it, but guessed it was the result of:
  •         the movements of the planets
  •         a punishment from God
  •         bad smells and corrupt air
  •        enemies (many times Jews) who had poisoned the wells

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